> First, Chromebook was initially rejected by Google management. In fact I wrote the first version as early as July 2006 and showed it around to management. I

> First, Chromebook was initially rejected by Google management. In fact I wrote the first version as early as July 2006 and showed it around to management. Instead of launching a project, the response was extremely tepid. My boss complained, "You can't use it on an airplane." Actually, you could as, under the covers, it was still a bare-bones Linux distribution and could execute any Linux program installed on it. Its interesting how many companies first reaction to grassroots innovation is to kick it to the curb. To quote Jonathan Ive: "while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished."